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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is right now announcing the results of its nearly two-year long investigation into antitrust claims surrounding some of the Google’s core businesses. The Wall Street Journal is posting live updates from the press conference and, as expected, Google has agreed to voluntarily modify some of its search practices—despite the FTC declaring “‘evidence does not support a claim’ that Google was abusing placement of search results.” As for the claims of abusing Motorola patents, Google agreed to provide Motorola patents to any company requesting a license on fair terms:

The outcome: Google has agreed to let websites opt out of having their content scraped without being punished in overall search results… Will the FTC be monitoring Google’s search algorithm for bias? No. Unanimous decision that there was no violation of antitrust laws or FTC regulations. Pretty conclusive. “The facts weren’t there”, FTC says.

Google has to offer a license to any company wanting to use its Motorola patents. So that’s that. “Committments to make patents available on reasonable terms. Company’s cannot just make this committments when it suits them”

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission today announced it has closed its investigation into Google after an exhaustive 19-month review that covered millions of pages of documents and involved many hours of testimony. The conclusion is clear: Google’s services are good for users and good for competition.

Google further agreed with the FTC (PDF) to try to resolve standard-essential patent disputes before seeking injunctions, and it wrote (PDF) to the FTC to announce two voluntary product changes:

More choice for websites: Websites can already opt out of Google Search, and they can now remove content (for example reviews) from specialized search results pages, such as local, travel and shopping;

More ad campaign control: Advertisers can already export their ad campaigns from Google AdWords. They will now be able to mix and copy ad campaign data within third-party services that use our AdWords API.